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  1. Cycle-resolved Cephalopod-Inspired Pulsed-Jet Robot With High-Volume Expulsion and Drag-Reduced Gliding

    May 7, 2026Yiyuan Zhang, Anye Zhong, Junkai Chen +1RoboticsRobot Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore · Advanced Robotics Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore · Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, Singapore

  2. LineRides: Line-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Bicycle Robot Stunts

    May 6, 2026Seungeun Rho, Shamel Fahmi, Jeonghwan Kim +3Reinforcement LearningRobot Skill Learning

    1RAI Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  3. Optimal Uncertainty-Aware Calibration for the AX=YB Problem

    May 6, 2026Yanjia Chen, Xiangfei Li, Huan Zhao +4Hand-Eye CalibrationRobotics

    State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology and the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.

  4. 3D Printing of Passively Actuated Self-Folding Robots with Integrated Functional Modules

    May 6, 2026Gaolin Ge, Qifeng Yang, Haoran Lu +3Modular RoboticsRobotics

    Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. · Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. · Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. +1

  5. Low-Cost Stereo Vision for Robust 3D Positioning of Thin Radiata Pine Branches in Autonomous Drone Pruning

    May 6, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Aerial RoboticsStereo Matching

    Centre of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence & School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand · Computer Vision Research Lab & Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Canterbury University, PO Box 8041, Christchurch, New Zealand

  6. From Language to Logic: A Theoretical Architecture for VLM-Grounded Safe Navigation

    May 5, 2026Kristy Sakano, Kalonji Harrington, Mumu XuRoboticsSafe Robot Navigation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. · Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

  7. Task-Aware Scanning Parameter Configuration for Robotic Inspection Using Vision Language Embeddings and Hyperdimensional Computing

    May 5, 2026Zhiling Chen, David Gorsich, Matthew P. Castanier +3Robotic InspectionRobotics

    aSchool of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA · bUS Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center, Warren, Michigan, USA

  8. From Ontology Conformance to Admissible Reconfiguration: A RoSO/SMGI Adequacy Argument for Robotic Service Governance

    May 5, 2026Aomar OsmaniRobotics

  9. Jiao: Bridging Isolation and Customization in Mixed Criticality Robotics

    May 5, 2026James Yen, Zhibai Huang, Zhixiang Wei +5Safety-Critical ControlRobotics

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · OpenMind, China

  10. Height Control and Optimal Torque Planning for Jumping With Wheeled-Bipedal Robots

    May 5, 2026Yulun Zhuang, Yuan Xu, Binxin Huang +5Robotic ControlLegged Robotics

    Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China · Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Biomimetic Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Human-Augmentation and Rehabilitation Robotics in Universities, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada

  11. Benchmarking Local Language Models for Social Robots using Edge Devices

    May 4, 2026Dorian Lamouille, Matevž B. Zorec, Farnaz Baksh +1LLM EvaluationOn-Device Language Model Inference

    University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia · Institute of Computer Science University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia · Institute of Technology University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia

  12. MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment

    May 4, 2026Haoquan Fang, Jiafei Duan, Donovan Clay +26RoboticsEfficient VLA Models

    1Allen Institute for AI · University of Washington · 3National University of Singapore +6

  13. Higher-Order Flexible Configurations of Planar Parallel Manipulators Constructed by Averaging

    May 4, 2026Yudi Zhao, Georg NawratilRobotics

    Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry & Center for Geometry and Computational Design, TU Wien, Austria

  14. Human-in-the-Loop Uncertainty Analysis in Self-Adaptive Robots Using LLMs

    May 4, 2026Hassan Sartaj, Jalil Boudjadar, Mirgita Frasheri +2Robotics

    Simula Research Laboratory · Aarhus University

  15. Research on Vision-Language Question Answering Models for Industrial Robots

    May 2, 2026Ping Li, Bartlomiej BrzozkaVisual Question AnsweringRobotics

    Shandong Management University, Jinan, Shandong Province, 250357, China · Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

  16. LLM-Foraging: Large Language Models for Decentralized Swarm Robot Foraging

    May 2, 2026Peihan Li, Joanna Gutierrez, Fabian Hernandez +2Swarm RoboticsLanguage Model-Based Control

    Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA · The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas 78541, USA

  17. Sentinel-VLA: A Metacognitive VLA Model with Active Status Monitoring for Dynamic Reasoning and Error Recovery

    May 2, 2026Wenhao Li, Xiu Su, Dan Niu +6Continual Learning for LLMsRobotics

    University of Sydney · Central South University · Southeast University +2

  18. Function-based Parametric Co-Design Optimization of Dexterous Hands

    Apr 30, 2026Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Harsh Gupta, Wenzhen YuanRobotic Hand DesignRobotic Grasping

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

  19. Interaction Forces and Internal Loads in Parallel Manipulators with Actuation Redundancy

    Apr 29, 2026Joshua Flight, Clément GosselinRobotic ControlRobotics

  20. Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Universal Robotic Gripping

    Apr 29, 2026Alec Boron, Bokun Zheng, Ziyang Zhou +2Robotic GraspingRobotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

  21. Benchmarking the Safety of Large Language Models for Robotic Health Attendant Control

    Apr 29, 2026Mahiro Nakao, Kazuhiro TakemotoLanguage Model-Based ControlHealthcare

    Kyushu Institute of Technology Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan

  22. Robot Planning and Situation Handling with Active Perception

    Apr 28, 2026Austine Oloo, Zainab Altaweel, Yohei Hayamizu +9Active PerceptionLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    1SUNY Binghamton · 2CMU · 3Ford Research +1

  23. KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning

    Apr 28, 2026Yixuan Huang, Bowen Li, Vaibhav Saxena +9Robotics SimulationRobotics

    Princeton University · Carnegie Mellon University · Georgia Tech +3

  24. Computational Design and Co-Robotic Fabrication for Material Reuse in Architecture

    Apr 27, 2026Arash Adel, Daniel Ruan, Ruxin XieRoboticsHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Princeton University

  25. Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities

    Apr 27, 2026Michael F Xu, Qiyao Yang, Heather Kirkorian +1RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, Wisconsin, USA

  26. Otherness as a Quality in Designing Expressive Robotic Touch

    Apr 25, 2026Ran Zhou, Laurens Boer, Daniel Leithinger +1RoboticsHaptic Feedback

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology · IT University of Copenhagen · Cornell University

  27. Vision-Language-Action in Robotics: A Survey of Datasets, Benchmarks, and Data Engines

    Apr 24, 2026Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang +7Synthetic Data Generation for RoboticsRobotics

    University of Maryland, College Park · University of Utah · Northeastern University +1

  28. RedVLA: Physical Red Teaming for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Apr 24, 2026Yuhao Zhang, Borong Zhang, Jiaming Fan +4RoboticsAdversarial Attacks on VLA Models

    Institute for AI, Peking University · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University

  29. LeHome: A Simulation Environment for Deformable Object Manipulation in Household Scenarios

    Apr 24, 2026Zeyi Li, Yushi Yang, Shawn Xie +15Robotics SimulationDeformable Object Manipulation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. · Peking University. · Lightwheel. +1

  30. A Kinematic Analysis of Palm Degrees of Freedom for Enhancing Thumb Opposability in Robotic Hands

    Apr 24, 2026HyoJae Kang, Yeong Jae Park, Hyunmok Jung +2Robotic Hand DesignDexterous Manipulation

    Advanced Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM)